Integration & Physician Issues

Cleveland Clinic will acquire Ohio Cancer Specialists, a cancer treatment center based in Mansfield, Ohio.

While co-management agreements between physicians and hospitals are usually successful, hospitals should be on the lookout for one major pitfall.

Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health recently donated $50,000 to the Iowa Rural Physician Loan Repayment Program, according to a Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier report.

Small, rural hospitals take a very different approach to physician alignment than their large, urban counterparts, according to new survey data from Kurt Salmon and the Community Hospital 100.

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Detroit, has signed an agreement to join Flint, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care, creating the largest cancer research and provider network in the state.

While applicants to medical schools have skyrocketed to their highest numbers ever, there is still a lack of residency spots available for training physicians, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Cincinnati-based TriHealth has purchased Pulmonary Consultants Inc., a five-physician pulmonary group practice in Cincinnati.

New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System has hired 109 healthcare providers in 2013, expanding the ranks of its employed providers by nearly 50 percent, according to a Boston Business Journal report.

Since 2006, the physician assistant profession has grown 34 percent and is expected to continue growing, according to data from this year's American Academy of Physician Assistants annual survey.

Younger nurses are more likely to be optimistic about the future of nursing compared with their older colleagues, even though both groups are happy with their career choice, according to the results of AMN Healthcare's annual survey of registered nurses.